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Behance Distributed Logging Application - Log View

What do you do when there is an error across 7 different web applications running in production and load balanced across roughly 200+ servers? Good luck logging into each and grepping some logs. No, crying won’t help; we tried that. Instead, why not build a tool to log all of those errors into a centralized location? After evaluating the many (fantastic) pre-built options like: Loggly, Splunk, even Syslog… we found none of them provided all the capabilities we wanted. The job to build our own solution was then tasked to Matt LeBrun and me, and here is our awesome journey.